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Welcome to our blog. We post irregularly about topics tangentially related to our non-existent product. SEO optimized for keywords nobody searches for. Content is king. This content is a jester.

Mar 14, 20268 min read*Engineering

How We Migrated 0 Users from Monolith to Microservices in 6 Months

A harrowing tale of how we spent $400K splitting a CRUD app into 47 services that talk to each other via carrier pigeon. The migration was seamless because there were no users to migrate.

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Feb 28, 202612 min readAI/ML

Why Our AI Is Just Three Regex Patterns and Prayers

An honest technical deep dive into our "AI-native" engine. Spoiler: it's if/else statements. But we wrapped them in a Docker container and called it "model inference." Investors loved it.

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Jan 15, 20264 min readCulture

How We Built a Remote-First Culture With One Employee

Remote work is the future. We should know \u2014 we've been remote-first since day one, mostly because we can't afford an office. Dave works from his couch. The 8-Ball works from Dave's desk. It's a hybrid setup.

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Dec 1, 202515 min readInfrastructure

The Great Kubernetes Migration That Broke Everything

We migrated to Kubernetes because someone on Twitter said it was best practice. 3 weeks later, we had 6 clusters, 0 running pods, and a $12,000 AWS bill. We went back to a single EC2 instance. It's t2.micro. Dave is the autoscaler.

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Nov 8, 20252 min readAnnouncement

We Raised a Series E from Dave's Mom

We're thrilled to announce our Series E round of $47, led by Dave's mom, Barbara. Barbara is our second-largest customer and our only investor. She will be joining the board as Independent Director, which is fitting because she independently decided to give us money.

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Oct 17, 20256 min readEngineering

Why We Rewrote Everything in Rust (And Then Back in JavaScript)

We rewrote our entire backend in Rust because a blog post said it was fast. It was fast. Nobody on the team knew Rust. After 3 weeks of fighting the borrow checker, we rewrote it back in Node.js. The blog post didn't mention that part.

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* "8 min read" is aspirational. The actual post is 3 sentences and a broken image embed.